Re: The Quote Thread

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"If music be the food of love, play on."

- Shakespeare

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

- Henry Ford

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

- Wayne Gretzky

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- Yogi Berra

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."

- Hegel

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

- Socrates

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- M.K. Gandhi

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

- Abraham Lincoln

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

- Arnold H. Glasgow

[Mr. KAdvisor]

"I like to call them PB&J. Because in my universe, George is named Billy Gondor and Ringo doesn't exist."

theSuperMetroid at PSF on The Beatles
(http://petsoundsforum.com/thread/1345/great-spoken-word-moments-songs?page=3&scrollTo=24341)

[Mr. KAdvisor]

"At the Albert Hall last year, Beefheart was standing at the back of the floor while the band worked towards a balance. 'How's that, Don,' asked Zoot Horn Rollo. 'Like a custard with two feathers sticking in it,' replied Don and the band went 'Aha' and adjusted their instruments accordingly."

John Peel, "The New Captain Beefheart Album Clear Spot", Creem February 1, 1973)

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"At the Albert Hall last year, Beefheart was standing at the back of the floor while the band worked towards a balance. 'How's that, Don,' asked Zoot Horn Rollo. 'Like a custard with two feathers sticking in it,' replied Don and the band went 'Aha' and adjusted their instruments accordingly."

John Peel, "The New Captain Beefheart Album Clear Spot", Creem February 1, 1973)

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."

- David Hume

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

"I went through a lot of changes, but honestly for me it was becoming vulnerable which helped me become better."

- Michael Phelps

[DarkGothicQueen]

".....I may be the one walking away, but you`re the one who`s leaving...."

~~~ Daryl Dixon to Merle Dixon, from The Walking Dead  Season 3, Episode 10 Home
Always one of my favorites from the relationship of the Dixon Brothers

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

- Stephen King

[Mr. KAdvisor]

"His Excellency regrets
That owing to his exalted state
He can no more associate
With amiable brunettes."

Noel Coward, "His Excellency Regrets", from Pacific 1860 (1946)

[Mr. KAdvisor]

"Count where man's glory most begins and ends, and say: My glory was I had such friends."

William Butler Yeats, as quoted by George McGovern in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida on July 14, 1972

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

- Leonardo Da Vinci

[Cool Cool WaterHonorary Member]

Forget the radio. it's over... SMiLE!

- voluntaryinnature

[Mr. KAdvisor]

Forget the radio. it's over... SMiLE!

- voluntaryinnature

Where did you find this, Rich?

Mine is:

"Clip clop, clip clop. And a plop. Hello horsie."

bonniebella's legendary shout at PSF to bringahorseinhere aka Rick, who regrettably (but inevitably) got himself banned for life over there

[Mr. KAdvisor]

"Something is wrong with your evaluation
It shouldn't happen in my generation
There ain't no way I can change the situation
No kind of pills can help my constipation
My lovin' is in rags cos there ain't no copulation
I tried and failed last night at St. Pancras station."

Commenter Brett Symington sending up the lyrics of "Eve Of Destruction" and/or "Dawn Of Correction" at YouTube

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